What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

You cant go on winning all the time.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.