The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion.

What was a surprise was when the dog answered his que

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Judge Samuel Alito's accomplishments in life are the embodiment of the American dream.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.

When you connect to your source, you can create anything you'd like to have in your life.