Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

They call her love, love, love, love, love. She is love, and she is all I need.

All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.

Free will comes at a price. A price most of us do not know how to pay.

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems

Buddhism’s cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.