The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving.

My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.

Footballers are slaves. I know this from the personal experience of being a footballer.