To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes.