"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."

"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."

"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."

"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."

"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."

"Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor."

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

"Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life."