You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.