Rules cannot take the place of character.

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.