When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

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.'

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

The moderns do not realize modernity.

The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.