The more you read, the more you calm down.

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.

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.