I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.