Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man

Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

I take it hard when an animal in my care suffers or dies. I take it even harder when the animal's suffering is the result of human exploitation or carelessness.

Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.

Optimism will grow like a flower if the soil be properly prepared.

I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Work hard, have fun and make history.

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.