I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

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.

Loneliness changes you more than time.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant

Atheism is too theological.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.