Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

In nature nothing exists alone.

-- Rachel Carson

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

-- Rachel Carson

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

-- Charles Darwin

The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads.

-- Ibn al-Haytham

In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

-- Peter Lynch

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

-- Grace Hopper