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“Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.”
Source : Source: asia.nikkei.com
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“I was in New York last Christmas - it's snowing; there's a guy in a t-shirt. I'm like, 'Dude, aren't you cold?' 'No, I'm from New York. I don't get cold.' Just 'cause you're from a cold place doesn't mean you're genetically predisposed to not feeling cold. You're not a penguin. I was like, 'In fact, sir, you're Puerto Rican, so if anything, you should be more cold.”
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“However, I think that sometimes when shows do, you know, have a good season or a bad season, it comes down to something as simple as the crop of contestants that year, and do they break through in a way that makes the audience excited. Those are the kinds of things that tend to make a difference, more so than tweaks to the format and that sort of stuff, as much as we, obviously, would all like to try to assume that it's in our power.”
Source : "Reality Check: Dan Cutforth On What Keeps ‘Top Chef’ Sharp, Cutting Through The Clutter & What’s Next". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. June 16, 2014. 
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“Turn your scars into stars.”
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“Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.”
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“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”
Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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“I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.”
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“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”
Source : Suze Orman (2006). “Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work”, p.41, Crown Business
