Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

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.

God will restore all that you have lost in your life

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.