Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

We find what's in our own heads.

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined, ” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

The mind is limitless, in its creations.

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.

For all I know, the guy is Dracula.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.