When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.