The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

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.

I like the concept that people are alive.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Nature is only another chimera.

The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere