Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end.

Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.