If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.