We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.

With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!