Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you.

It is for others one must learn to do everything for there lies the secret of happiness.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.