Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

Stop using the medical system and start using the self care system

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

I never believed in God and I will never believe in it.

I was good at art - always good at art.