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

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.

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.

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.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!

His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldnt call on me.

You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.