I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

I believe that if you don't have systems, you don't have a business - you simply have a job for yourself. My challenge has been to build those systems in a new restaurant setting.

You're looking for the light, ForgettingYou have an astonishing light, inside you, which can enlighten the whole world.

A business owner who is not willing to invest in their business is a business owner who shouldn't be in business.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.