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

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.

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.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

The common people don’t believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I’m blessed with a good pair of ears. That’s how I fooled my piano teacher. I’d watch his fingers and I’d listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.