Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.

What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.