...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.