Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

One's life has many compartments.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.