All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?

We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.