You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

The world will be a better place when everyone becomes a leader

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

I should thank you'', she said.His lips stilled, and she felt him smile against his skin. ''For what?''''Everything, really. But mostly for being you

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.