The money game is not like any other game. You cannot choose whether you'll play, for the money game is the only game in town.

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

There is no such thing as a future decision. There are only present decisions that affect the future.

Always remember, indecision is decision - usually against you.

One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.

I like being a writer.

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.