I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.