We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time".

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.

A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm