A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

God didn´t bless me so I can backslide, He didn´t give me a status so that I can become a statue.

Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.

Throughout the life we keep asking for something or other from God but often forget that he has already given us the best thing at our birth - A beautiful Life.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?