It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

Authority is established by God for the wellbeing of His people

A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.

Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information.

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

When God breathes He breathes on hard-hearted people.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.