My dad told me at the very beginning of my career, basically, "If you're gonna have a megaphone, you're gonna need to use it to do some kind of good." He has always been aggravated by any kind of celebrities that don't have any charities or love or passion or something they're trying to help.

Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.

If I don't buy it, I can't sell it.

If you're starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there's nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art.