"The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball."

“People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"”

“The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.”

Source : "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.

“That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.”

“Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.”

“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”

“But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.”

“I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.”

“O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.165, Simon and Schuster