It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

Jesus Christ is the mighty Saviour.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.