The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD, ’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD?

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.