If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

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.'

He tasted like chocolate and hazelnut liqueur and she wanted to feast on him for the rest of the night. His kiss… his kiss took her to another place where fireworks blazed.

He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived.

You can't choose your potential, but you can choose to fulfill it.