Faith Alone is what really matters.

If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.