Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.