If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

My goodness, I'm like a hog at a trough!

The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

Men see what they expect to see.

I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

Few of us get anything without working for it.