We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.

Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

Waking up in the morning isn't a choice, you know.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

What I like the best is when I can be still and not move.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

I'm here, and I know that it's finite; I know that I'm not going to always be here.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.