“I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“Only repetition with a goal in mind can truly lead to mastery. Sometimes you can keep rehearsing without learning anything new.”

“The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.”

“There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.”

“I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.”

“You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

“206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say "yes" to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say "I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same."”

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

“At that moment, I do now truly believe, the deed was done, in the sense that the decision of the will is the true essence of the act.”