... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

People hate what they know and fear what they don't.

I don't love anything." - Parker "I know." - Everett

The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heardby listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct.

A little adversity can't hold me down.

A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.