Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts.

If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there.

We are not these bodies; we're neither our accomplishments nor our possessions—we are all one with the Source of all being, which is God.

God wants to bring victory to a people who recognize who brought it.

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.