Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.

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.

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

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.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.

In life, you will always find what you are looking for.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.