Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

GUNS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. WE ARE.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.