We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

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.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

You can never go back.Never.Not if you want to survive.

We are to live for the dominion of God’s kingdom

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

Loss is imaginary. Nothing ever disappears in the universe; it only changes form.