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

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.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?

All my trapped tears are in there like poison, but I can't let them out.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.

You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.