Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?