I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.

I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

Stronger people are harder to kill

I went into very deep research as to what exactly that meant and how sociopaths function psychologically and within the world.

How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.

We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. (on the Champions league Final)

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.