People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has. They can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

I know everyone says they go to yoga, but I actually really go. I notice that helps me so much.

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.