Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.

Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

Creators almost always go mad.

The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

I believe in it because it is impossible.

Independent is not scary but a brave action.

To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

I owe my career to Paul Heyman.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.