What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

Just do it! First you make your habits, then your habits make you!

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

We really love someone when we miss even the things we don't like of them.

When words leave off music begins.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.

The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.

Your destiny is not determined by your critics. Focus on running your own race.

If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.