Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

Going to work every day was like my hair was on fire and all I had to put it out was a hammer.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Face adversity head on in your training and you will conquer it smoothly in your fight.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

Have faith in your destiny