In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?

As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?