All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ).

It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.

I essentially write for myself.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.