The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .

When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.

Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.