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

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.

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

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?

When we start focusing our energy on the things we love, they come easier and more effortlessly over time.

The greatest sacredness is great love.

My time is now.

To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.