What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other People's Minutes.-RVM

The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.