The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Jodi Picoult

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Mario Batali

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

Jenson Button

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Terry Pratchett

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Confucius

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

Albert Brooks

Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

Matthew Quick

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Sean Penn

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

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