Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.