Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

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.

Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

We live in an interconnected world, and you cannot prevent people from leaving. What you need to do is to create opportunities. At the same time, people are also coming back.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.