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.

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?

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.

You Got to know when to hold em', Know when to fold em', know when to walk away, know when to run.

To live a kingdom live on earth is to live by principles

The divine pattern is your life purpose. It is a story about your divine self and it is written within—your heart

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

NO NO NO!! FIVE! FIVE!

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.