The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

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.

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

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.

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.

Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure!

To remember nothing, " they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

For the believer there is no question for the non-believer there is no answer.

Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Every single house has had death visit.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.