The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.