From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

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.

Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness.

The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

We want the kind of love that sells movie tickets.

Grace means you're in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

The system isn't working for most people and never has worked for most women.

When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog.