When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

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.'

Nothing great comes to pass in life without perseverance.

Every woman has beauty. Every woman has worth. Every woman deserves a chance at happiness.

Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.

(after Quigley explains that the ghosts have been feeding off of their misery)Toma: So, what, we should think happy thoughts?!Duane: That is not a talent of mine.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

Obviously I wanted to be a bus driver - and I still do. If only I could get a part time job.