My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

Keep holding on, stay strong. If the world gives up, just keep fighting.

You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.

Wealth can only be multiplied through work.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.