If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.