Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.

Confidence believes you are able. Competence knows you are able.

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Women and music should not be dated.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.