That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

Had we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.