Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

State your point. If the opposite party doesn't agree, state it harder- with a punch.

Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

We've created over 200,000 jobs every month this year. Hasn't happened in 17 years. I guess my first question is, when do the Republicans stop calling it 'Obama's economy'?

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it.

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.

I'm not one who likes rehearsing too much.