My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.

Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.