If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

My mother’s laughter was infectious - like a cheerful tune that lingers in your mind for the rest of the day.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.