When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don't have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.

I'm not on a special diet, but I do try to stay away from a lot of fried foods and from a lot of carbs. Yes, I eat a little bit of all of it.

I was walking after opportunities in my life, but I forgot that every second of my life is an opportunity.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

Fake it until you make it! When you're feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside

You can't dribble on bow ties.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.