“Smile to the future and it will smile back to you.”

Sometimes, you want to meet somebody like yourself – who had an equally incredible life.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.

I love the yellow sun. It reminds me of Russia in the 30s for some reason.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

One day we wake up to be thankful about basic things.

The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.

It’s a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

It’s time to miss the lost.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful – I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

To achieve the impossible, you need to first develop the mindset that it’s probable. Please don’t allow the current limits of your life define your future reality. You deserve so much better. And the world deserves your best.

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

I am in transition between who I was, who I am, who I want to become what I left behind and where I am looking ahead.

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.