All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Life did come with a manual.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

Intuition is a feeling and we must let it overtake our thoughts.

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

A man is hit by a car while crossing a Beverly Hills street. A woman rushes to him and cradles his head in her lap, asking, Are you comfortable? The man answers, I make a nice living.