One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Sever the edge between before and after.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I want to go outside and play.

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.