My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face!

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

Proud meaning that... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud?

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. (on the Champions league Final)

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.