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

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.

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.

There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at another it's a hold, and at another it's a sell.

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.