"You always face a bunch of hands trying to stop you from working."

“It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.”

Source : George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

“I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.”

“Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.”

“It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.”

“Loneliness has been following me my whole life.”

“What is up with this Ashley Purdy day tomorrow,I see? Do I need to dress up as myself?!”

“The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.”

“A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.”