The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Ambition never comes to an end.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Music is a language, a universal language.

Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.