The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Even in death, may you be triumphant

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Any yellow, any blue, any red and a white are all I need.

Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.