The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

Victory is always bittersweet.

Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midnight. Black and awful!

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

There is magic in all life.

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.

The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.

Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

A true leader inspires by being among the people, not above them.

On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1, 000 movies during college.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together.