At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

So shine on through these days we have to fill.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.