The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.

提供背景而非控制。当人们了解事情的背景时，他们会更有生产力和创造力，而不是被告知该做什么。

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. There's nothing to prove.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I don't need validation from anyone else. I know who I am.

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."