Avoid evil, particularly if they're attractive members of the opposite sex.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision makes it fallacious. They remind me of Mark Twain's saying, 'A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.' Projections in America are often a lie, although not an intentional one, but the worst kind because the forecaster often believes them himself.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.