"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?

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.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.("New York Blues")

Hunger is not debatable.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same end.

Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

When it comes to emotions, we all feel pain in the same way, everyone, whether you're from Istanbul or Beijing.