When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.