I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

There is no point in being confident and having a small position.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

Words and statements work both ways - to build or destroy.

The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

I'd never let anybody share dessert with me or even have a taste.

Voice is my instrument.

All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

"What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot."