Do not let anyone else run your business

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

If you have life you have money but if you have money you don't have life, for life is like every precious thing you need

Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

Focus on good thoughts.Focus on wonderful moments.Focus on beautiful places.

These days people are so mean that they even try to get rid of their shadows sometimes.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.