I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, ' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.