Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil toh shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Fear is a double-edged weapon: it can force you to do something or prevent you from doing something.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. 

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. 

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Thre is aen ond rderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything aevery being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.