Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

People make their own luck.

When everyone lives only for self, life doesn't work.

Self-help isn't really self-help unless someone else is also helping you. We'd like to be that someone.

The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.