Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence it can only be attained through understanding.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Compared to America or Europe God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.