When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

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.'

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

No one is born with Positive Passion. This Power is ignited by Inspiration!

When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. I'm glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, 'That girl was bats– crazy. I'm glad I didn't go there.'

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.