I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.