The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

I think men are still attracted to what they've always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

Men willingly believe when they want to.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.