When you are fed up with the endless tasks you must do to maintain your life, think of those who would relish the freedin if doing these tasks for themselves.

When you aren't satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn't need to complain.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Courtesy is the grease that lubricates society.

You cannot grow a lotus on a granite rock. So too you cannot grow loving kindness in a granite heart.