It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.