The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

All -isms end up in schisms.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I want to see you happy. I want you to live in the moment and smile spontaneously. Your entire face lights up. It’s beautiful.

Inconvienience pushes one into heroic action...

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

I just need to get more aggressive and let my teammates feel all that energy and all that emotion.

Science clears the fields on which technology can build.