We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process