“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”

“I decided to accept as true my own thinking.”

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”

“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”