Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

Loving you was easy. Hating you was hard. Falling out was insane.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether they have consigned it to death.