Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

Who can ever hold the essence of fire?Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

Until one has given all, one has given nothing.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Passion is the soul of youth.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.