If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.

The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows.

A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.

You don't need more space. You need less stuff.

We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.