A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

Hope: Hold on, persistence effort!

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.