Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Art destroys silence.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own...No matter what.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.