"When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends."

“Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.”

Source : "Edward Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.

“To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.”

“Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.”

“There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings”

“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”

“Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.”

“Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.”

“I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.”