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

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.

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.

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.

Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.