I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

I have kept a diary,

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.