The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!

When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.

Food and clothes sustain Body and life; I advise you to learn Being as is. When it's time, I move my hermitage and go, And there's nothing To be left behind.

How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Shape yourself before the world shapes you.

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis.