Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.