Analysts recommendations may not produce good results. In part this is due to the pressure placed on these analysts to recommend frequently rather than wisely.

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.

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

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.

the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Appreciate water before you are thirsty! Appreciate all the good things before you need them!

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

No woman dares express all she thinks.

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.