The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most?

Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.