What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

Sometimes the best decisions in life are on the spur of the moment. So I generally try to do what I think is right. And sometimes I make mistakes.

I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?

Your dream is to feel good

M.T. Stone was the poster boy for what an assassin should look like.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

I had to deal with death at a really young age.

When I work I always find something.

Actually, power is like money; neither good nor bad. Its negative or positive spin depends upon how we use it.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.