Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.

From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what's fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that's a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

Don't, " she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.

Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.