There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

I call architecture frozen music.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.