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

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.

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.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere.

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

Having children really changes your priorities.

Hardware: This is the part of the computer that stops working when you spill beer on it.

Dear me, how I love a library.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.