When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?

It is important to build inner core, form beliefs and life values

War is the trade of kings.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.

You have to fight for the things you want.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.