It’s very nice to be able to be who you are.

I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.

One of the advantages of the book’s having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there’s been time for people to report back on what it’s done for them.

I was a writer for ‘New York’ magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against “no fault” insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

Still, most people don’t have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Now listen. You can’t fool all the people all the time – but I want you to try.

People don’t need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don’t, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth’s greatest luxuries.

Man’s natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

There’s no such thing as altruism.