When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.