"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."

"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."

"The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are."

"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling."

"Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go."

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."

"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives."

"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."

"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."