For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.

Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.

Mastering my mind one thought at a time.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

Perception of a state is not the state.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.