One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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.

Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it.

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?