Writing is the emotional morphine.

You will know who wants you to succeed by the way they see the good in you before they ever see your flaws.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.

No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.