Ted Turner
The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.Collection: People
We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.Collection: Play
I'm just a socialist at heart.Collection: Heart
I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.Collection: Men
I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth.Collection: Feet
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.Collection: Selfish
I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.Collection: Funny
Christianity is a religion for losers.Collection: Loser
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.Collection: Life And Death
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.Collection: Two
The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.Collection: Boredom
If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.Collection: Jobs
If you never quit, you're never beaten.Collection: Persistence
We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.Collection: Children
Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.Collection: Music
Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.Collection: Success
I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.Collection: Thoughtful
I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.Collection: Best Things
If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.Collection: Mean
Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.Collection: Important
I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.Collection: Motivational
Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.Collection: Father
Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!Collection: Cancer
I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.Collection: Inspirational
We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.Collection: Eight
What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.Collection: Giving
Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.Collection: Men
Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.Collection: Communication
If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.Collection: Stupid
The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.Collection: People
Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.Collection: Zero
We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.Collection: Inspiring
There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.Collection: Children
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.Collection: Life
There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.Collection: People
Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.Collection: People
When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.Collection: Cnn