Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

The journey itself is my home.

This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.

Summer grasses, All that remainsOf soldiers' dreams

Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still...Iris, blue each spring

Winter solitude-in a world of one colourthe sound of the wind.

Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses...whiteWordless Butterflies

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.

It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.

On this roadwhere nobody else travelsautumn nightfall.

Freedom was a drug, one that grabbed hold of you the second it entered your bloodstream. It made you giddy and reckless if you didn’t know how to channel it.

You only know there is love and you feel beloved when you share, when you're gasping for air.You only know you are living and every moment you were longing for air.

Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

A girl's got to have a few secrets.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.