Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.