Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.