We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.

So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.

God is my safety.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.

I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

I'm not a what-if and could-have person. I'm happy with my decisions.

I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can do.