As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.