The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

My attention span is very short.