Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

You need to manage your expectations. You'll live longer.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.