On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

The place cast a spell on me, a lovely spell that seduced me one one breath at a time.

Ganelon sighed. "Slowhand...""Never again, " Clay said. "Where you stand, I stand.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Man's glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in 'his goodness,' for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Fear comes with middle age.

Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

My mother's love was really not based on attachment. Her love was genuine love. To make me happy, not how I will make her happy.