Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.