We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!

Live up to your highest calling on earth.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

Whatever you put your attention on in this life, will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.

I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.

Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.

When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.

Such as we are made of, such we be.