A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.