The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. - Robert M. Pirsig

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

Uncle Tom's Cabin was no literary masterpiece but it was a culture-bearing book. It came at a time when the entire culture was about to reject slavery. People seized upon it as a portrayal of their own new values and it became an overwhelming success. The success of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance seems the result of this culture-bearing phenomenon. The involuntary shock treatment described here is against the law today. It is a violation of human liberty. The culture has changed.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive