I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

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.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

I've not had a mean life.

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.