Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

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.

When we turn to the heavens to look for inspiration, we miss the most important piece, and that is the person right there next to us.

Touch has a memory.

Look in the mirror and see the President in you.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.