“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.”
“The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.”
“When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.”
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
“The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.”