I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.