The tale is often wiser than the teller.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

There are moments. You will know them.

But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.

Perfection is a moving target

What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.

We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?

I've done so many bad things in my life but the stars always forgave me.

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

The sin is in our thoughts.

Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

What is polarizing in America is the Democrat Party agenda. What is polarizing and divisive is the Democrat Party agenda and the things they have been trying to do.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.