We should learn to think with our fingers.

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.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.