I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

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

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.