Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.