Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

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.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.