Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Ambition never comes to an end.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

You are the apple of Love’s eye.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.