In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

A man of calm is like a shady tree.People who need shelter come to it.

Sooner I realized, he doesn't need to be big to be brave, because bravery is the courage found in the heart...

My back slams against the oven door, and I cover my face and cry. I cry so hard I can't breathe.

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.