"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment."

"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."

"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity."

"It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."

"Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected."

"True refinement seeks simplicity."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

"A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large."

"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."

"Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe."