You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

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.

Simplest explanation usually the right one

When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.