When cleaning I do it the way people go to church — not so much to discover anything new, although I'm alert for new things, but mainly to reacquaint… - Robert M. Pirsig

One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers.

I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of the political nature… I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important and products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right.

There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.