Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.

God is the soul of the universe.

Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

I overreacted to praise, signing an autograph. I'd write a check to buy it back.

There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. And that's how we survive.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.