The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.