Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

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.

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

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

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?

Excellence is the target of champions and winners.

Had I known, I would not have left you, alone beneath those stars, on the night when I last saw you, not knowing it was the last.

You can't hurt a heart that does not exist

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.

In fashion, only sexy won’t go out of fashion.

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

We're all worth the same When we turn off the light.