Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flowerof every cherry tree.

Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight.

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind.

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'