Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding.

You wouldn't believe the things that go missing in these labs. Remind me to tell you the story about the radioactive spider sometime.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

An acid is like a woman: a good one will eat through your pants.

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.

Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

I am going through changes