Of course he despised the world as a whole

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Industry need not wish.

Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.

I'm all over the place.

The Spanish press started calling me ‘El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one.