"The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York."

"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."

"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."

"If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals."

"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."

"God does not play dice."

"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."