When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Don't bottom fish.

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

It isnt the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury the greater the pressure to piss it away.

Never invest in any idea you cant illustrate with a crayon.

Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don't do any work.

You've got to go into places where other investors, and especially fund managers, fear to treat, or, more to the point, invest.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

Many women feel they can't afford their lives; their husbands can't afford to be paying for the family bills. Hillary Clinton is guilty of being part of the establishment that created that problem.

Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.

As the member of a firefighter family myself supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important personal cause of mine.

As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion.

I'm less comfortable in stilettos than I am in running shoes.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.