Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Everything is research.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.