Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

We can't crush evil with morals. We are justice. We are morality.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

I think fashion can have a very negative impact on young people who feel they have to be thin. I am not part of that trend. There is so much pressure on teenage girls.

Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.