The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

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.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.