The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

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.

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.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.

To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

I walk every day with my dogs and force myself to run a bit but I hate it.

Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.