The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

I'm not a trend, I'm an icon.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I'm not a rapper, I'm a history maker.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.