Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen?

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

Every past is worth condemning.

What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one day without warning flood out.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

People probably assume I sleep in my uniform. Then I get up and go to the mall or the market in my uniform.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.