It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

When things get tough... Make good art.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits