Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.