Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.

Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you.

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.