However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.
When something is over, it is over.
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate. . . Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You. ' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what.
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.
No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children. . . I am as aware as any other Christian that our Savior was Jewish, His mother was Jewish. The Apostles were Jewish. The first martyrs were Jewish. . . So no true Christian, in my judgment, can be an anti-Semite.