Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

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.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.