Wendy Egyoku Nakao Roshi

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon the planet. Then all things are at risk.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.