Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

You may reach the tree top, and seem to touch the sky, but know that the tree your resting on, is grounded and rooted in the soil, deep in the earth.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.

Don't be intimidated by the size of your problem or the size of your dream. God will see to it that it is finished completely.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

I would rather obey than work miracles.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.