You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

People, since the beginning of time, have always tried to understand the universe through love.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.