Never underestimate the power of the ocean.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

I want to become more famous, even more famous.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

They always win who side with God.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.

Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.