I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Even if you follow other people's advice and model successful people and their blueprints, you will still fail if you don't have confidence in yourself. Everything - absolutely everything - starts with you.

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants