"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."

"History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums."

"I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading."

"I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University."

"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."

"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam."

"We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves."