We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.

Losing your job releases you from the control of the world system

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

I've enjoyed winning races in both 500cc and MotoGP and enjoyed leading the world championship and contesting it right up until the end.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.