Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Love is stronger than violence.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.