The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.

While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in American history.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I feel happy about being busiest model in the world. It's good to be busy.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.