Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

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

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

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

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.