Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don’t know why. We were nice people.

One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.

The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

I love any kind of food. I dont have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.