One by one the sands are flowing One by one the moments fall Some are coming some are going Do not strive to grasp them all.

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

See how time makes all grief decay.

Dreams grow holy put in action work grows fair through starry dreaming. But where each flows on unmingling both are fruitless and in vain.

How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.

They were beautiful nothings

Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing!

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.