Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Sever the edge between before and after.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

I think Temple is wrong. I don't think I'd dig that kind of art party at all.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.

India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

My dream was to write a book and see it published. I didn't dare imagine anything beyond that, so, I'm trying to keep my head on my shoulders.

I'm just enjoying life more and thinking about the future.

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.