So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

Faith is the continuation of reason.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

The stars are but tears shed by a miriad of unrequited dreams

A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

It was like I had a baby and I suddenly started to feel I could play anything.

Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.