Money and Other Subjects

“The great spiritual leader Gandhi walked barefoot most of the time, causing his feet to be quite sore and calloused. His unusual and spare diet made him physically weak and gave him bad breath [at least for the purposes of this riff]. Thus, it is said of Gandhi, that he was a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed with halitosis.”

— Via Andrew Tobias, who also says “to have in the stock market only cash we won’t actually need (for things like rent and food) for several years.”