I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

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.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

Ogni nostra cognitione prīcipia da sentimēti. All our knowledge has its origin in our preceptions.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.