Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.