If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ichDie Wanzen nährte ichAufgefressen wurde ichVon den Mittelmäßigkeiten.

Emotional security is just as important as financial security.

Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.