If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.

It means zero to be against greed.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.