As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

Of my own, I like my upper stomach. I just seem to always have abs.When I'm not really pregnant, I have a great two-pack.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

When you make people feel important, you're going to be ahead of the game.