The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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.

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.

Not everything that's small is insignificant.

Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish.

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.