The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.
what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIVAIDS emergency from exploding any further
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.
The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.