Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

All one great big lie.

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.

I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

I have knots in my years that I can't undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

First love is dangerous only when it is also the last.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.