Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

Forgive all who have offended you not for them but for yourself.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!

My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot.

Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.