Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.