Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Man created religion in order to avoid god.

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.

Respect the past; you never know how it may affect you.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.