Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?

Look within!... The secret is inside you.

A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.

There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality.

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.

The meaning of life is to see.

The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.

As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.

Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.