Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.

Love was like a toothache.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Every act is an expression of one's self.

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please?

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.