Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.