If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Friendship is the union of spirits.