It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

Never give up, trust your instincts!

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well.

Interacting with fans has become one of my favorite things.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.