I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

You always learn lessons in business.