In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

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.

The world was not just moving. It was alive. And it was ready to fight.

The fantasized kiss was stolen time from the dreams…

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

I have killed two people since midnight. I haven't slept in over 24 hours. So maybe you should be a little more afraid of me than you are now.

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.

You don't know what a semi-colon does... sort of like my act.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.