If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

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.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.