It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.