We want very good leaders who have a lot of power.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.

What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on digital writing in the writing workshop that much more compelling?

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

Now I have close to a million followers on Twitter, which is crazy because I don't even know how to spell. But it definitely forces me to think more about the "we" factor.

My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand