Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha's, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view in your life and in all things." -

There is no "I" as such apart from others.

Oneness and individuality coexist. There is no question about the importance and uniqueness of each individual life. However, difference is no difference. The very difference is equality, is one.

Only when I see myself truly is Gautama Buddha is present in me.

Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.

May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.

We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.

...“living in oneness with Buddha’s teaching, is a creative life in which everything becomes meaningful.

In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha

Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

We are not defined by the things we accumulate, but by the memories we impart.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.