If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.