A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

Think, think, think.

Hope is a garden where dreams grow like flowers.

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.