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 we are a product of all our experiences.

Details create the big picture.

I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.

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

I believe in giving back very strongly.

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.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.