Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.