If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.

If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.

On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Ambition never comes to an end.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

There is more to a soul than what others see

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.[so we can see the bright side of everything]

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

That's what perseverance is. You go through some tough times and you fight through it. And now, it's over. It's over.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.