Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

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.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything