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

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.

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

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.

I love you, " she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Association with other people corrupts our character

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.