If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.