I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Believe that you are unique with infinite love and beauty in your soul.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

Our most important public service will always be the NHS. And I want to say something clear and unambiguous about the future of the health service.

There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.