A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

One person can only lose so much before he starts to realize that he's not strong enough to lose any more.

The offender never pardons.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.