My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.

We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

I believe in the power of one.

The best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.