Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

Read every line item until you get it.

Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.

My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.

My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.