There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

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.

We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?

...The question is, why do you think you can't be a writer?""To be a writer, you need readers.""I'm no painter, then. Who ever looks at my little dumb pieces of shit?

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

Life is both beautiful and painful. In whatever situation we find ourselves in, no matter how unfortunate it may seem, there is always something to be thankful for – if we only choose to see it.

...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.