If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.