Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

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.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

I am always on the women's side.

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.