What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

Work at being a humble person.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

There is something about loss and pain that opens the doors of wisdom in your heart, doors that would have remained locked for a whole lifetime.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

When no one else signs me.

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

I've never missed anything I've given away.

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.