I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.

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.

There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

Whatever my team needs - that's what I do.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

You've eased my boredom for quite a while, haven't you? -Ryuk