Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Like Weather, one's fortune may change by the evening.
Character is what you are in the dark
The expression of enlightenment whether it is premodern enlightenment or postmodern enlightenment, traditional enlightenment or evolutionary enlightenment is the expression of that consciousness that is always inherently free from time. In order for your own self, at the level of consciousness, to demonstrate freedom from time and history in a dynamic and significant way, you need to do whatever it takes to accept responsibility for anything and everything that has happened to you as an evolving self in time that could prevent that which transcends time from awakening within you.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
I see all the different religious traditions as paths for the development of inner peace, which is the true foundation of world peace. These ancient traditions come to us as a gift from our common past. Will we continue to cherish it as a gift and hand it over the the future generations as a legacy of our shared desire for peace?
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
To remain constantly happy and to distribute happiness is the greatest honour.