Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

What is privacy if not for invading?

Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.