Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.

The eminent strategy had won yesterday, but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

The best thing about money is not worrying about money.

I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.