Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

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.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.