Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

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.

Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

If you love what you do, it won't be work.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

There will be a lot of fun things happening. Looking forward to singing on the ship!

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.