Life insurance is a commodity.

Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Let the end try the man.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.