My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

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.

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 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.

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.

I love to cook; that's my passion.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.

[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.