Many a false step was made by standing still.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.