We're diversified, we're stable and consistent. Our businesses benefit from each other.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.