An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.