Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.