Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

I would rather lose half of our clients than half of our clients' money.

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard.I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.

I came out the womb dancing.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.