The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.