Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.

If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.

Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing.

A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

As I think about the future the tears will come out again.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

I'm a kid from Boston.

If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.