Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

Once a day has begun eventfully, it generally carries on being every bit as lively.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.