Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Creativity and love come from the same source.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.

I learned the rules mastered them like a pro. Then break them easily like an artist without any trouble." ― Sage Canny

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.