Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold

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.

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.

Let the base louder...!?

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE. Don’t just exist. Live. Thrive. Love. Share. Care. DARE!!

Adam was the only man who when he said a good thing knew that nobody had said it before him.

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.