If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

For the Warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.