The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - which is to demean oneself.

Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.