A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.