I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

I read good. I was an English major.