Her sunny side was always up.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

You don’t have to stop fighting for others, you just have to remember to fight for yourself too.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.