If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was the strongest. -Butch and Marissa

I thought there was something in Ted Cruz's dignity that prevented him by endorsing a candidate like that, because that was the best explanation of what he did.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

When I was younger, I used to put honey and Coca-Cola and all that stuff on my body and just fry in the sun. But I think we all know how bad that is for you.

The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum