I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

If people want to believe in Hollywood movies, let them believe in Hollywood movies. Being romantic is not a disease.

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not been sent to divide people.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

We believe no evil till the evil's done

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.