Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.

So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.