Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

I was stunned into silence, the way I always was when he touched the sky places of my heart.

The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.