We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.

I sat down at the table, took a deep breath, smiled at Detective Masterson, and nodded at Deputy Slalom. It was going to be a great summer. Normal.

Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

You know, when you're right, that's all you get to be.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.