"In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons."

-- John Allen Paulos

“I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.”
“Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.”

Source : Dutch art-magazine: 'Eenheid' no. 283, November 6, 1915.
“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.”
“Prayer unites the soul to God.”
“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.”
“Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.”
“My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.”
“This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”

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