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

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.