When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Time is thought.

Life simply blew through her.

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

Be someone's best friend and be there when he or she needs you.