Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

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.

I know you weren't about to kiss me, warrior. Were you?” Gabrielle raised a delicate brow and tilted her head. “Because last I heard before you walked away, my kiss was 'forgettable.

I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

I didn't want to be an actor.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.