The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?

When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.

There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.

I’m not interested in meeting management today… I’m more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

Zachary Roerig who plays Matt, he's just a character.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

There was no one left to speak for me.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.