It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Don't do anything that isn't play

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Seek to know the power that is within you.

I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.