It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.

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.

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit.

My girlfriend is despicable. I just found out she flirted with my brother, during my mom's funeral, while I was asleep.

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

Sometimes, opening up your eyes and realising what you have - no matter how little you think - helps you find yourself.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.