I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

I believe I can sing anything.

If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I don’t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks