Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Fairness isn’t getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky.

There is a way to change your past: Change your interpretation of your past! New interpretation, new past!

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

Life is a great disappointment.

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.