It is the heart that is important.

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.

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

A lot of girls walk this earth telling people they've slept with me. And a lot of them did. But I don't remember 95 percent of them.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

Eventually, I became involved with somebody and I was fired.