No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.