I've never been high or drunk in my life.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.