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

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

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.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

When I'm onstage, I hope it looks like what I want to see - the lights, the pyro, the band.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?