90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.

The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

I've never met a successful pessimist.

Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.

Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.