Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.