I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

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.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

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.'

Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths

You have to be the right type for calm waters. For some, dead calm is inner peace, for others it's the doldrums.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.