In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

The living world is a dream. The nocturnal dream is reality.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus, and a lot of the songs are written as just plain and simple poetry on the road.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.