No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.

Change is the investor's only certainty.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.

Life is figure out what you hope for, live inside that hope, but live right in it, under its roof

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

Without art there is no hope.

Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.