No more will, no more soul, no more life!

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.

Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Ballet is only good when it is great.

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.