I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Coming from an unsuccessful background, I had developed deep feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me. What I learned was that this was not necessarily true. They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Reconciliation can also be with your own self. If you don't reconcile with yourself, happiness with another person is impossible.

This is why, to be happy [...] we need to take some time each day to sit down, look into ourselves, and identify the kind of energy that's motivating us and where it is pushing us.

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.

I don't want people following Jon Kabat-Zinn. I want them following themselves.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

People should judge me for what I've done in 25 years. I'm not a rookie in F1.

Angry and resentful people enjoy judging other people's problems because it makes them feel better about their own issues.

One of the most powerful antidotes to addiction is participating in different activities, lifting the addicts out of themselves and into positive, constructive acts of creation.