Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Whatever is meant for you in the universe shall be given to you. Do not despair.

If you know how to open doors with just a smile, you must need your teeth capped every six months

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

Change is no threat to culture.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.