You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.