Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

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.

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.