Love is the key, love is the secret.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

You cannot rise beyond the external as well as internal reality unless you understand your own perception.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.

Non-stop action and a hero to die for!

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.