Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking!

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!