The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

hindsight is not a strategy.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

Anybody can be hurt. This is boxing.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.