A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

Every breath is a sacred life.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

Halt Halt," said Gilan stepping out into the open.

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.