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.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

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.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.