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I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why it was the case with 'The Wire'.

The editors and the creators of 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' they are so good at casting and at finding these young, beautiful lunatics to go on the show.

Stop hoping for a promotion that's not coming. Instead, start a business at which you want to work.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I think that romantic comedies have a special place in most people's hearts, especially the younger demographic.

In life, only potential was free.

Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.

Avoid arguing with cynics and pessimists as they will only drain your energy and time.

If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.

Consciousness is a very simple phenomenon. Because we don’t understand it, we think it is a very complicated process.

I've truly tried to be apolitical.

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.