Ted Turner

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

But to do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.