Mario Quotes

My wife Susi and my kids quite simply are the most fun of all my friends.

I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time.

When you use Tabasco in the marinade, it kind of infuses everything.

The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.

What will always remain is love, passion and family time.

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

A democratic state will protect the freedom to hold any beliefs other than those that harm others, such as racism. In particular, it will see to it that no one is harmed just because of her beliefs.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.

Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.

To obey God is better than sacrifice.

Never give yourself permission to avoid doing what is right.

I send messages to the White House continuously

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

I am now more sure than ever that we're going to have a bipartisan bill ... making incredible progress.

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.