"The day that you die will be like any other day...only shorter."

“I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.”

“EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.”

“Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.”

Source : "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Book by Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, 2009.

“So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.”

“Every child needs a champion.”

“It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

“What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.”

“Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.”