I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.

Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot.

Optimal design delivers information in ways that are useful, beautiful and improve the experience of all involved: audience, client and designer.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.