If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.

Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

The great mystery of life is the length of it.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Art is Nature made by Man, To Man the interpreter of God.

A screaming comes across the sky.