Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure.

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work.

Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

I confess to being a frustrated musician.