It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.

Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.""The better to style with, my dear.

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.