Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.