I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of love, joy and hope.

The world around you know only that reflects on you, that is the success of a joker too.

That was what finally decided me. I wanted to be near him, to touch him, but what I really wanted more than that was answers, for the conflict within me to end. I needed control.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.