Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.