What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.

I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.