The more you look, the more you see.

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.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

A book is a sacred gift.

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.

If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.