Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Art is the proper task of life.

You have to protect it too, you can’t let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don’t believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.