Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

I am taken to the police station and they place me in an interrogation room. I am there for about thirty minutes before someone walks in.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Every day was a good day at UCLA.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness.

The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.