Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

What transpires for the least significant member transpires at once for the whole.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Producing is very much like running a business, where you find the project, you find the different people involved, you put the elements together, and you make sure they all work together well.

If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?

I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.