Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

When you praise God in pain, it is preparing you for provision.

I don’t know how – it is a question of process

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.

I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.