Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

We were playing every game to win, we just happened to win 27 in a row. Our motto was to try and go out and win every game, but there's nothing really to talk about.

Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.