Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone.

Don't think of death as an ending. Think of it as a really effective way of cutting down your expenses.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.