Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.