All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.