This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.

Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.

Love is the key, love is the secret.

I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

A sweet life is a sweaty life.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me.

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

If I'm going to die, I want to still be me