Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

It seems like people don't learn from the past.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.