To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.