You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Details create the big picture.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

I believe in giving back very strongly.

And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.

...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.

There is simply too much to think about.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.