Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

Go after your dreams confidently.Go after your aspirations positively.Go after your goals expectantly.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.