I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.

Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.

If I can lead a happy life, touch the lives of others in a positive way, win the respect of those that I care about... and make a few million along the way, then I have been successful.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again.

Anarchy is against the law.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.

When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.