I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.
No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head.
Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.
The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.
Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer,. . . We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel.
I think the satirist is always basically optimistic. The satirist's complaint about society is always that it doesn't measure up to a fairly high ideal he has. I think that even the bitterest satirist, even a man like Swift, was probably rather an optimist at heart.
I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.
You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.