You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

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.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Rekindle the flame within the soul.

People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.

I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.