The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.