A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.
Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same. . . . Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.