I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

There's no right time to have kids and no perfect formula. The good news is there isn't a wrong way, either.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them."(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

He's getting older, " Charles said darkly. "Shall I hit him with my walker or my oxygen tank?

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!