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

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.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

When the world caves inStill my hope will clingTo Your promiseWhere my courage endsLet my heart find strengthIn Your presence

So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.

She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

I just like to hear that guys have the same problems that we do.

In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.