I felt I was owned by possessions.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

On the Day of Judgment, life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them