Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar

Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. It’s so clear. Mindfulness is the energy and practice that helps you go back to the here and now so that you encounter life.

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race