Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.

A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

Trust in time rather than timing.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.

Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.

We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.