Bad things happen, but really bad things do not. Do buy the dips, especially the lowest quality securities when they come under pressure, because declines will quickly be reversed.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery

Waste no time lamenting with regard to what is lacking. In such instances, immediately turn focus toward what is to be...and remain poised to receive that which is due.

If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.