If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society.

Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

Always be friendly, always be kind, Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.

The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free ofattachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.