Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.