You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

I think with my heart and I love with my brain

My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?

Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

If we dont continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.