Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

I feel I have lived my whole life, day to day, without planning anything and I like it that way. Things change so fast, one minute you are here, the next minute you are on a plane, it's great fun.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.