And I was foolish enough to take the bait.

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If my parents had told me that what I wanted to do was stupid and foolish, that would probably be the fastest way to guarantee I was going to do it.

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There were three common elements in about two-thirds of the emails: these investors were trading options and not the stock, they asserted that I knew nothing, and that it was foolish on my part to write such a column.

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It was only when things fell apart that I saw how foolish I had been and that it's simply not healthy to let the person you're with become your entire world.

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Gentle Mary, from whom foolish children ran in fright, but who braided my hair, cared for me like I was her own and talked of the sea and the stars.

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