. . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

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.