What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

I am living breathing freedom.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

Snatching my hand in the death grip of his fingers, he pulls me off the wall to line his chest, closing his body around me in a muscular cage which smells of leather and soap.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

Time takes away the grief of men.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

I don't know why I go to extremes.

We know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it.

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.