A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know... ready to explode.

We notice our evolution when we realize that sweeping our problems under the rug is useless.

Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

I take notes like some people take drugs.