You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don't have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

I'm not on a special diet, but I do try to stay away from a lot of fried foods and from a lot of carbs. Yes, I eat a little bit of all of it.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

I get the fantasy league comment a couple of times a series ... that's pretty cool. They might be rooting for the other team, but if I do well it helps them out. It's kind of cool.

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.