We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that next generation of business leaders that will lead us into the future.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.

The value of a thought cannot be told.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!