Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

The most constant thing is change.

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.