“I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.”

If you give a party, you better give it right.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn’t care less. I’m not a snob.

I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don’t. I have attachments to my wife and kids – and about 20 pieces of art.

I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.

I like ’50s and ’60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.

I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.

Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.

It paid my way through college and helped my family out.