Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

I have always waited for the perfect tools to carve a statue, little did I realize that tools were never the issue, It's my carving skills which needed an upgrade and improvement.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.