Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.

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.

Yes!" Torin threw an arm over Reese's shoulder. "Smell that in the air? A grand adventure awaits.

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.

I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.