In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.