Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

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 most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

Your powers of observation are formidable, " Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

I would live to study, not study to live.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.