One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices.

Your faith today, whether great, small or none controls your destiny tomorrow

...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes'...We need change now. We demand actions now.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.