The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.

Pardon me if, reading that, I want to laugh, because you want to relieve me of a fear I've never had. I've never thought that, as they say, you eat little children.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

Boldness is behavior born out of belief.

To be blessed is to live in gratitude, so that God can fulfill you forever.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.