For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.

It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day.

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.