I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

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

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.