I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

My motto: sans limites.

There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves