You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Patience and discipline can make you look foolishly out of touch until they make you look prudent and even prescient

The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.

As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.