The best stories are about a character who has a goal or noble quest and goes through hell to get it. Do you have a goal or quest like that in real life? Why not?

It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.

My self-esteem is not tied to the approval of others.

Give a genius enough time and opportunity, and his idiocy will come shining through.

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.