We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

You can't see and feel the sky if you keep looking to the ground.

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

As a mom, you just don't have time, so you get straight to the point.

When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"