Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.

The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

There are idiots in every crowd.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.

How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work