The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

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.

Trials and tribulations are nothing but opportunities to test the true potential of your mind.

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of those who threaten it.

If you truly love someone You don’t need to be faithful It will just happen.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

I just don't fit into the box.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.