The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

In pursuing a ‘way, ’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

That computer was made in Alabama

Don’t change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he‘d be long gone!!

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].