A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Details create the big picture.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Journalism in America is dead. I've been saying it on the air since 2008.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.