“Man—despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments—owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”

— Paul Harvey

“Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. … There is no one who will ever come close to him.”

— Paul Harvey

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

— J. Paul Getty

“My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't hav...”

— J. Paul Getty

“If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”

— J. Paul Getty

“A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers-Black the gate leaps open, I sing;How did we live here?”

— Paul Celan

“Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.”

— Paul Celan

“We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street:it is time they knew!It is time the stone made an effort to flower,time unrest had a beating heart.It is time it were time.It is...”

— Paul Celan

“You opened your eyes -I saw my darkness live. I see through it down to the bed; there too it is mine and lives.”

— Paul Celan

“Am I not the poet of witness? Am I not a disciple of Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan trying to describe the horrors of the Holocaust, meanwhile inventing a new lyric, which questions the possibility/im...”

— Paul Celan