There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.