We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.