Generally speaking, you like to dance with the girl that brung you, and if you can't sometimes you have to shoot her.

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Every deal is a regulated deal. Regulators will tell you how to take your money home.

Don't do something you don't like. Look for a job that makes you excited to get up and go to work everyday.

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

All my happiness seems caught up in one of your smiles. - Jered Mandeville, 'Upon a Wicked Time

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

[Donald] Trump has said that he would do away with the Iran Deal negotiated by the U.S. and five of its allies with Iran, and yet he recently backed away from vowing to scrap the Iran Deal for now.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

Holiness is not a luxury, it's a necessity. If you're not holy, you'll never make it to Heaven [Heb. 12:14].

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven't regretted that.

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.