The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.

Sincerity is nothing to express, it appears over the period. Just try to hold and wait....

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.”“because I have the members, I have never felt lonely.