Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us... Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed... When we die, No-one will know it's happened

A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.

You can choose to die. You can choose to run... but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change... you're going to have to live.

Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.

With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

My heart hurts that means I’m alive.

Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it.

It is the journey that is important—not the destination.

Time is the resource that gives birth to other things

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.