"I like three-legged dogs, because if I was missing a leg I would be like: „URGH, life sucks when missing a leg. Slow down! I can't walk that fast, I'm missing a freaking leg!!“ And dogs? No! A three legged dog is on it. Exactly the same amount of happy as a four-legged dog! That's why I like three-legged dogs. They have taken their three-leggedness and they embrace it."

"But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do."

"Ursula Le Guin has been a hero of mine for 20 years. She's done so much, and she will continue to do good even though she's gone. I honestly don't know what I would have become if it weren't for Ursula Le Guin. The first time I read "A Wizard of Earthsea" I realized how balance could be even more epic than war. Suddenly, Fantasy wasn't just wish fulfillment and grandeur, it was real and complex."

"If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?"

"What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?"

"We often just accept the things that we like and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life. I think that would be fantastic."

"Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!"

"A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless."

"Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble."

"A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be."

"Stalin is the perfect example of what I was talking about. To simply call him corrupt tells us nothing useful. What circumstances put him into power? What objective pressures, as well as subjective characteristics, led him to make the decisions he made? I'm currently reading Trotsky's writings from 1932 (scary how accurately he predicts the way WWII would play out), and analyzing the details of why Stalin did as he did is far more complex and useful than just, 'power corrupts'. And it is even more true for the other great dictators of the 20th Century: I don’t think you can even say that Hitler and Mussolini were corrupt: they came to power in order to do the very things they did."

"It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings."

"Still, all this time, I was only barely aware that my subconscious was putting together a layout of the house. It wasn't that I expected to need one, it's just how my mind works. I am, quite frankly, very good at it, and maybe that's where the real pleasure comes in — just the joy of doing something you do well. There are worse reasons for doing things; maybe there aren't any better ones."

"When there's nothing you can do except worry, that's a good time to worry."

"I will always hold to those principles by which I have been raised… To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity… To hold myself to higher standards of conduct than I hold another. To never strike without cause, and, when there is cause, to strike for the heart..."

"Education and wisdom about money are important. Start early. Buy a book. Go to a seminar. Practice. Start small."

"It’s what is in your head that determines what is in your hands. Money is only an idea."

"Today, we need greater financial intelligence to simply survive."

"Today, don’t play it safe, play it smart."

"I told him that his profit is made when you buy, not when you sell."

"Small thinkers don’t get the big breaks. If you want to get richer, think bigger first."

"You can only learn so much by reading. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book."

"Action always beats inaction."

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result."

"Most sellers ask too much."

"All you need to be is generous with what you have, and the powers will be generous with you."

"Moral of the story: Make offers."

"Poor people are more greedy than rich people"

"Finding a good deal, the right business, the right people, the right investors, or whatever is just like dating. You must go to the market and talk to a lot of people, make a lot of offers, counteroffers, negotiate, reject and accept."

"It is true that your world is only a mirror of you."

"For while the process of developing cash flow from an asset column in theory is easy, it is the mental fortitude of directing money that is hard."

"Due to external temptations, it is much easier in today’s consumer world to simply blow it out the expense column."

"True, I have lost money on many occasions. But I only play with money I can afford to lose."

"Too often today, we focus to borrowing money to get the things we want instead of focusing on creating money."

"The power of self-discipline. If you cannot get control of yourself, do not try to get rich."

"So I pay myself first, invest the money, and let the creditors yell."

"To be the master of money, you need to be smarter than it. Then money will do as it is told. It will obey you. Instead of being a slave to it, you will be the master of it. That is financial intelligence."

"I know that sounds tough, but as I said, if you’re not tough inside, the world will always push you around anyway."

"The net result: I still have the old way I used to think, and I have Peter’s[Lynch] way of looking at the same problem or situation."

"A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas."

"I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices."

"Listening is more important than talking."

"I would say that one of the hardest things about wealth building is to be true to yourself and be willing to not go along with the crowd."

"Copying or emulating heroes is true power learning."

"It’s just like riding a bike. After a little wobbling, it’s a piece of cake. But when it comes to money, it’s the determination to get through the wobbling that’s a personal thing."

"Doubt is expensive."

"As I said, getting out of the rat race is technically easy. It doesn’t take much education, but those doubts are cripplers for most people."