You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.