Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.

Study the nature around you, but also within you.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.

It is possible to be happy and successful by living on one’s own terms.

I like working among ‘creative clutter’. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement.

In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery.

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

As a child I would play with such imagination that the ‘real’ world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility.

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.