Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

The public doesnt particularly care for advertisements.

The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Navratri represents how the negativity can be conquered by the inherent positive qualities in us.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.