I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?

Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul.

Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.

But now, here were the British among us, upon our soil where the sun rises over one lake and sets upon another.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.

Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people.

If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever