Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

Peace begins with a smile..

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea.

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.