I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.

There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as well and do some mistakes....I tend to sacrifice myself for my next album.

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.