“Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana. Learning should never stop. Discipline of riyaz is a must if you are serious about pursuing an art.”

“I don’t really care that much about if I want to be more successful or less successful in art, because I never think life and art should be separate. What’s life if you don’t have conversation and joy and anger?”

“One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.”

“Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.”

“If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A. D., and besides telescopes are unnatural.”

“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.”

“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”

“I have learned that success in business, and perhaps in most aspects of life, requires both self-discipline and objectively imposed discipline from outside.”

“Serious tweet: we all must learn to be happy with being alone; that is when things begin to change.”

“Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.”