The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.