Life is a classroom.

We place artificial demands on ourselves that undermine our happiness. These demands force us to work harder and harder to cross a finish line that keeps moving.

Achieving success is hard staying successful is even harder.

It’s better to bite your tongue than to eat your words.

There’s more to life than increasing its speed.

People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

What counts that we’re not counting?

You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren’t supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Many people are actually poor because the only thing they have is money.

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life

Kindness is the best prayer.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

There is some pain that nothing heals" [Zarek}