More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

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.

Live every single day doing something relevant

Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.

The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!

I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.