The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

Everything was believed except the truth.

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves.