Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Every experience has its element of magic.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

My only politics have been friendship.

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.