It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.
Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.
For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.