A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

When you can't create you can work

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.