All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.
The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.
You can't regret what you can't remember.
Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.
Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.
Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i. e. , wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.
Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.