The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.

The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

Do not fall in love, but rise in love

Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings

Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple of dudes killed hundreds of thousands. That f****** rules! Yeah!

I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

Everything works out how it should.

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.