I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win

I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.

It is incredible how rich you can get by not being perfect

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.

Look for daily beauty. Let the splendor of life fill your senses.

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.

I always look old when I work because I get so upset and tense that my face wrinkles up like a prune, I can't stop it.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Close your eyes and you will see.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.