I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.

Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

In all the thrashing about that results from our dwindling gold reserves, it's about time that this country and other countries get some perspective on the situation. The day this country is out of the stuff, that day gold becomes what it's worth as a metal and no longer will have much significance as a monetary measurement. It isn't the gold we have that makes this nation rich. It's what we make, our knowhow, our productivity. So long as this country produces more and better, the world will continue to want what we make.