Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.

The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.

the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

Standing is symbolic of life itself, Open space is just a distance between you and someone else

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

They import and they consume reality.

I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done."