The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The family is the American fascism.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

Returning to my dreams was like returning to home after a long time of being away - everything was exactly the same as you left it, except infinitely better.

Don't be among those who give up early and regret later.

I cannot ever imagine a time or place in which I will not love you. I am willing to do whatever it takes.

In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind.

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.