You must find your dream...but no dream lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular dream.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.