I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

A picture paints a thousand words

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge we get from the exercise of our reason; to say that no man can be God and know everything is to take an irrational standard of evaluation.

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Anytime you make big plans, you have people questioning what you're doing.

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

My father's not the type of person that teaches you by saying, 'Come here, son. I'm going to tell you about real estate.' You learn by watching it. If you don't pick it up, it's your problem.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.