If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Art is a business, like any other.

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

Discarded lay all the dreamsIn the bin of unwanted thingsTill you came and set them freeAnd, to soar, gave them wings…

I’d always be watching her. And she knew now that she belonged to me. Every breath she took, every step she made, every smile she faked, I’d always be there, watching her, waiting for her.

But the pirates never showed, and the slaves found themselves trapped on a narrow peninsula. (Lesson: never trust pirates.)

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.