To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

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.

Shut your mouth - there's a bus coming.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Public opinion is a second conscience.