The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.

If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.

I may have my fault's but being wrong isn't one of them

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.

He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

Do what you love, don't do anything else.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.