God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!

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.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

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.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

Your past success and victories, small or large, can renew your resolve to persevere if you are willing to lean on them.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.