It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

Singapore is a natural gateway for international firms looking to access Asia and for Asian businesses to access the world.

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

It is expensive to live in hotels even cheap ones more expensive than renting.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

I am very reluctantly healthy.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

It's a special thing to be a public company.

Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

I like when a guy has his shirt off and I can see his chest and his abs. When it's all smooth, you can see a lot.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.

I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.