We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good even if nothing else in your life is right you feel like your whole world is complete.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs in his attitude a motivation above and beyond winning.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else or always wanting to be the first one in line.