I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.

I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.

If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Don't spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can never be them and they can never be you.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.