Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Art is both creation and recreation.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.