I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.