Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

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.

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.

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.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

You would never know what you are truly capable of achieving, until you stop settling for what is easy.

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!