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

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.

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.

Life is nothing other than what we internally translate it to be.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.