Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.

Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.

In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.

Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

Make us happy and you make us good.

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.