No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

If you are always worried about the outcomes of your future, then it's time to surround yourself with the right people who would push you harder than you have ever pushed yourself.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.