All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.