The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

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.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.

Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself.

The essence of Druidry is training the mind to both handle contradictory input and construct contradictory out

I’m not 'aw shucks'. Because I'm gnarly.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.