Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

You were built for this moment.

He is no fool who believes the man who knows everything.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Being able to feel love, loyalty, gratitude and happiness means you have a soul? Then all my pets are bound for heaven.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.