Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

It is the want that creates the body.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.

Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out