My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

For me it's a dedication to your real interests. It's an ability to be open-minded. Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. The great artists have been open-minded, even though they may seem, like Picasso, to be very directed, you can be directed and open-minded at the same time. I think you have to be really intensely serious about your work, but not so serious that you can't see the lightness that may also involve your life. You have to have that lightness too. You have to not be so heavy-handed and so ostentatious. It's very important not to be.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.