Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday!

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.