“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one’s commitment.”
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.”
“It is difficulties that show what men are.”
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”
“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
