Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

The markets continue to mark time. Every day we get worries about inflationary pressures and interest rate pressures. Stocks have a hard time rising, but the reasons to rise are still coming through with strong earnings gains.

We`re getting more defensive in portfolios.

I met with them in June, and they said that out of 1,000 unsolicited, unagented scripts they look at each year, they publish maybe 10.

No one's told me anything about that (being the everyday second baseman).

We have a lot to work on. But we're getting experience.

This is very good news for the technical side of the market. It means there's still enough money to float everything. It's not just the big-cap stocks, although I still think they remain the leaders.

Retail sales is the single best indication of overall demand in the economy.

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

Most people don't know what this city has to offer.

It's fun to be here.

Businesses have been investing at a record pace in productivity enhancing equipment.

Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

We don't have a lot of good news coming in. We had tremendous earnings in the first quarter. Now we've got this hiatus until we see what the second quarter really does. That could give you a chance to slow down a little bit.

It's so much easier having Butter (Butterfield) as an infield coach. Just watching Orlando play, you can't help but learn a lot. I adjusted well to third this year, and working hard really helps everything along. If I do that (with second base), it will feel like home.