Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

Nothing comes into existence nor does anything disappear. Nothing is eternal, nor has anything any end. Nothing is identical or differentiated. Nothing moves hither and thither.

You would destroy yourselves but He would be your savior.

Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.