Buying's easier, selling's hard - [it's] hard to know when to get out.

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.

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.

Over time you realize that some people just aren't worth it anymore.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.