They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

You mean in the state?

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

Life is sacred gift. There is nothing to lose, only joy.

Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.