Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

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.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.

I was not born to wait.

It takes time, or does time take it?

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

It's called the pump, people - you got to experience it; it's one of the better highs in life, you don't need to shoot up for it, you don't need to snort it. All you got to do is sweat for it.

If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions.