“Time is three eyes and eight elbows.”

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots – just paint Spring.

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky.

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout.

We would scoff at the idea of a nice studio. “Why would you want to go to a nice studio? Oh wow, they have really expensive gear. Ooh, that’s really fancy. Well we’ve got an eight-track. We’ve got it going on here.”

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

For an actor, you’re rejected eight or ten times a day. All you’ve got to sell is yourself. You’re not selling products, they’re not turning down a car, they’re turning you down. Most people can’t handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

I was a model for eight years. That’s the deal: People look. But I didn’t like being looked at and never seen.

I work eight hours a day, but I’m not writing all that time. I’m thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

I bike all the time in New York City. I bike for hours. I can bike for eight hours a day and just go everywhere with bikes.