You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.