Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette.

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

A good soldier never leaves a man behind.

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.