Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Dreams show us our infinate desires in life. If you dream it, you can achieve it.

A life without integrity, faith, courage and a positive purpose, is an unnecessary gamble with no positive possibility.

Childhood is the barrel they give you/to go over the falls in.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

I know Okay, Sorry. I am. Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.