If you run from technology, it will chase you.

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 library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.