The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

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.

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

This is what Kirkus Reviews has to say about CW McCoy and PEAK SEASON: “CW is a great character. Widmer has a great sense of place

It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them - even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.