The menu is not the meal.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, ItÂ’s true, absolutely true.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.
The industrial value of leisure as a promoter of the consumption of goods, and thus as a stimulant to business have been proved.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I apologize when I’m wrong.
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.
I think; therefore I am.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
