I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

If I can be a leader, I will.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Water is my drink.

I don’t care about money.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Power is competence.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.