A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

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

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.