The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Chance favors those in motion.

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

I'd rather be judged on what I can do instead of who I'm not.

Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself

I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.