one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

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).

The great mystery of life is the length of it.

Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.

LEXI: I’d settled for this awful existence because I’d convinced myself it was better than being alone....But it’s not.

Believe and love yourself.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.