I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!

Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.

If trees could speak they wouldn't

What does it matter, all is grace.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.