Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.

The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flowerof every cherry tree.

Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight.

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.

Embrace your struggles. They are making you the person you were meant to be.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

I was a very independent teenager.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.