I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

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.