Our senses are always part of the process.

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

Want to change the world? Get creative and solve problems. The world has too many factory workers and too few problem solvers.

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.