You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.