You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

For a start, the salary begins to have an attraction and addictiveness all of its own. A regular paycheck and crack cocaine have that in common. In addition, and more to the point, working too long for other people can blunt your desire to take risks. This last factor is crucial, because the ability to live with and embrace risk is what sets apart the financial winners and losers in the world.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.