If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

Don't just aim, Shoot!Don't just talk, Do!Don't just walk, Move!Don't just hope, Act!Don’t just follow, Lead!Don’t just dream, Live!Don’t just exist, Love!

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.

And now I know it's hard when you don't know what to think