Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Sever the edge between before and after.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

There is a real joy in being truer version of yourself.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.