Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne St. Clair Subject: So . . . Does that mean I can call you now?

A man that can master patience can master anything.

For love is sufficient unto love.

The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.