Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

What transpires for the least significant member transpires at once for the whole.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.

Anger has strength, hate has might, but love has power.

To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

If we want to make meetings productive, we need to keep track of those whose requests are on the table.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.