To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.