There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

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.

The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not.

Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.

The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.

Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

With each door one women walks through it is incumbent to bring another woman through it with her.

Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.