"I tend not to worry about what the perception is. I think people have their different views over different things. They have different opinions over different business models and over different business interests."

“Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise...”

“It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.”

“Anyone who has a simplistic idea about the Middle East, or about the conflict, doesn't get it - because there are no simple answers. And anyone who is messianic, in a right-wing way or a left-wing way, is wrong too. The way forward is a kind of cautious, commonsense approach - a cautious, humble hope. No fantasies.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Time management is a big part of the director's job.”

“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.”

“I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.”

“I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get to work with - not all of them are well-adjusted. Some of them are driven by heavy demons.”

Source : "An Interview with Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry". Interview With Paul Solotaroff, www.mensjournal.com.

“The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.”