Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try.

If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for its time, it was very politically courageous.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence