You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really, " he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Our portion is not constantly looking back at our fears and failures

...a murder of crows gormandized until they were satiated.

I’m not only my father’s daughter, but also a daughter of the nation he founded. And protecting both is what I’ve always done.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry