If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

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.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.