The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Remember when you had your face lifted... and the guy brought it back.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.