She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Adversity is an adventure.

What would I do to possess her? Would I change my cellular structure? Turn my back on my identity?

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.