The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

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.

We are made of all those who have built and broken us.

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.

You still haven’t eaten your muffin. (Sunshine) ‘Yeah, right. He still hadn’t eaten his boots either, and he’d rather feast on one of them than that thing in her hand.’ (Talon)