Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

The things you are afraid of

I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

How many things I can do without!