I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.

A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

So, this is my life. And I’m the architect of my happiness and sadness.

If you take the approach of “earning” your customers’ business every day and treating them well, they’re less likely to try someone else.

But I trusted in thee O Lord I said Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.

Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.