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

Think with your whole body.

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?

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.

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.

Those who know me never doubt me..Those who doubt me, never knew me.

Who I am is the best I can be.

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.