The term "too big to fail" must be excised from our vocabulary.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Be creative.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Ten years from now I will tell you how I feel about umpires.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.