May we be free of the tyranny of our expectations of others.

Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.

We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.

...“living in oneness with Buddha’s teaching, is a creative life in which everything becomes meaningful.

In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha

Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,

We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society.

Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.

Life is part of negative, and full of positive only wise knows it.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.