Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

America is not the center of the universe.

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.