"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening."

"Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful."

"Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau."

"I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity."

"Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose."

"Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done."

"Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation."

"It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens."