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.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

​It's Hard, Not to Fail, but, there is Always a Chance of Success. Of course, there is No Chance of Success, if You didn't Try.

The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.

So if you choose me, then you have declared me more special to you than anyone else, because only one man can have that honor.

My skin was the border between the world and me.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.