The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

A person has to live in a house for it not to break down.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.