Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look.
A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.
I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of ou...
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
Coach Paul 'Doc' Hines: You have twelve brothers and sisters? Coach Boone: Eight. Coach Paul 'Doc' Hines: Yeah, twelve sounds better.
I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.
Paul Varjak: [giving his name at the police station] Paul Varjak. Varjak, V A R J A K. I'm a writer, W R I T E R.
There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.
I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'
I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
