I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.

America is not the center of the universe.

I'm going to set up a foundation for the world. I'm going to take the money and start building cities all over the world. I'm a comet.

All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.