We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

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.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.