Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?