... no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad.

I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no longer adventures, no matter the attitude.

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.