Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.