I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.

Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST

That was the thing about weddings: they forced family members to deal with one another, like it or not.

I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

Life isn’t about been brave but doing what you have to do to survive”.

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.