the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.