It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

Life is like a magnet: success attracts and failure repels.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.