"You have to believe in yourself"

"Even when I was in an orphanage, when I was roaming the streets and couldn't find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
- Charlie Chaplin

alternative global accommodations

https://www.airbnb.ca

Mark Twain smoked 40 cigars per day, and lived to be 74.

on war

"The crueler it is the sooner it'll be over."

- William Tecumseh Sherman

"The mind knows not what the tongue wants. 'It's a mystery! And a critically important step in understanding our own desires and tastes is to realize that we cannot always explain what we want deep down.'"
- Dr. Howard Moskowitz cited by Malcolm Gladwell

Tis nothing good or bad
But thinking makes it so
- William Shakespeare

a place to get a burger in Toronto

http://www.theburgerspriest.com

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."
- Bruce Lee

a place to buy a yacht

www.sunseeker.com

if you don't have a private jet ...

Seinfeld and Letterman

stress

"You only feel pressure when you know what you're doing."
- Chuck Noll

"Be quick, but don't hurry."
- John Wooden

Billionaire philanthropy.

a way to see Africa

For about $90k per person:

www.abercrombiekent.com

on writer's block

"Wet sand is the color of good heroin."
- A deceased veteran of current wars

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”

- Albert Einstein

on stand-up comedy

"You pray that they like you."
- Woody Allen

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routine

"I write seven days per week, even if it's only one or two hours per day; writing is a way of living."
- Mario Vargas Losa

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"Failure is the road to being a great comic."
- Louis C.K.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
- Mark Twain

"Simple is the most sophisticated thing of all."
- Ina Garten

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wild and crazy guy

"My idea of a good night out is to stay at home."
- Steve Martin