We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

The future when it comes, is just like the present. The present is all you have and the opportunity of the present is worth more than the success of the past or the promise of the future.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness...

Giving is a stream of abundance.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.