You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

I had this idea of a restaurant called Roast where everything was roasted. It was dopey.

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

Happiness is a choice. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions but on inward decisions.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I make sure the foods I eat will benefit the appearance of my hair, skin and nails.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life.

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.