Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.
Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library. . . When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.
I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.
I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.