I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

Loneliness feels like prison.

The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.

We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space, there was not a single eye on earth looking at the sky.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'