You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

hindsight is not a strategy.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Don't mind us, we're just spilling our guts. If this is love, I don'twant to be hanging by the neck in front of an audience of Death.

Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!

Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.

Be a good witness by the way you live. The way we live is often more convincing than the words we say.

Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time.

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

Michael Cole, The Rock knows that you have never, EVER, had a piece of poontang pie!

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.