The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make your business to be there.

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life.

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

To win you must pay the price. If you haven't won you haven't paid the price.

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity.

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.