“One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.”

“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”

“Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity.”

“[When asked if he is going to go to his high school reunion] "Yeah, I can't wait. I'm going to show up in a helicopter."”

“If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.”

“One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.”

“They want to go to Crimea, but no one is waiting for them there. If they want to leave, then let them find their place in Kazan.”

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

“Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want.”

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?”