The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands.

James is why I never left. I should have left.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you just got the story.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.