When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

Be natural at heart and new in mind.

Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.

Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.