We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

In the end, what will hurt us the most is not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

If she’s gonna love again, it won’t be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

Never let them give you their own branding upon your name, brand yourself to avoid being falsely branded.

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

The absence of war is not peace.

I met someone who lives in an elevator.

A unjust law, is no law at all.