I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

Zac Posen

Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Noam Chomsky

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

C.S. Lewis

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Brian Eno

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.

Toba Beta

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

James A. Michener

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

Tallulah Bankhead

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Benjamin Franklin

In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.

James Lovelock