Love is free; it is not practiced as a way of achieving other ends.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.