My imagination creates my reality.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.