You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever." - Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive AmericamFrom Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

Everyday, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals, but helps the environment.

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.