I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.

The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!

In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.

Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are.

Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want when the market's crashing - cash.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.