If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.

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.

Faith Alone is what really matters.

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

Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

Carrie Fay always says that nothing is really horrible unless it eats away your face.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of profound inspiration

I'm amazed at the Democrats and the media who do not know what's going on in my world. I know what's going on in theirs. I study 'em. I watch 'em every day.

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.