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.

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.

Infect everyone with your smile

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.