Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

For violence or fraud can create no right.

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.