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.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
The greatest crimes are not committed by those who break the rules, but by those who follow them to the letter.
The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome given the alternatives.