The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

在成功撮合首都公司与ABC合并后，巴菲特说

你爱得越多，你就能爱得越多——而且你爱得越强烈。

总有人会持有一些愚蠢的信念，但你可以通过提高自己对这些人背后原因的理解，来降低这一现象的讨厌程度。

I want to run a good race, to run a good time, and to enjoy it.

路上挤满了去某个地方的人群，但没有人知道他们要去哪里。

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.