The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

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.

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

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'