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.

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.

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

The mind is the treasury for knowledge, but the heart is the treasury for love and kindness.

dear me i think i can run miles after miles through my mind by imaginary flyover, gather all together to write down on my notebook.

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.