The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

Failure is just success rounded down.