It takes a long time to fully become who you are (21 November 2016)

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before, you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

- Björk

Juergen Teller, Björk, Spaghetti Nero, Venice, 2007

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

There's no map to human behaviour.

- Björk

Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

- Björk

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

- Björk

René Magritte, The Glass Key, 1959

Between ourselves, it's terrible what one lays oneself open to when drawing an innocent picture.

- René Magritte

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer