What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.

If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.