"Patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"It is a timeless truth that in the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design."

"Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts."

"Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness."

"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."

"If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice."

"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."

"Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization."