In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

I love you not because you are deserving of my love but because it is my number one duty as a Christian.There is no Christianity without true love!

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

Memory is a great betrayer.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.