The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

What would you do if money was no object?

The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.