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Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.