Over and over again financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over they ignobly fail because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

If we go on the way we have the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change we will disappear from the face of the globe to be replaced by the insect.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up I change bats. After all if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting how can I get mad at myself?

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Even if you play perfectly a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy an art in a lover an accomplishment in a bachelor and second-nature in a married man.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy like the joys afforded by art or life.

When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations sold them to pension funds then sold them short then bought credit default swap insurance on them are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.