Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'

Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.

As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

I think that, in general, when you want to make a case, It important to be as clear and honest and persuasive as you can be about stating the opposite case, rather than attacking strawmen.

I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming, Are you sure all we did was kiss? Never got a dinner!

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.