The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Death is not something you get over. It’s the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.

I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

I think the media is very much like the inside-the-Beltway crowd. They're not average Americans themselves. They're under a lot of pressure from editors and publishers.

I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity