You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.