There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking.

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.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.

Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible!

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.