Red tape has killed more people than bullets.

When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

Love is a sacrificial item

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.