"True wisdom begins when you realize character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'"

"Serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that a leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

"You are the music while the music lasts."

"The art of living is discovering that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."