I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. 

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The sky, horizon, rainbow, and mirage are all illusions. The universe is full of illusions.