None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.