Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

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.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.