The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

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

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.