In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.