I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar.

Laws of attraction could build a strong relationship among married couples or friends.

Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

Recognize and honour your uniqueness.