People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'
