The only Zen you 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.

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.

Serenity is when I realized I'm blessed with beautiful nature around.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.