“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.”
“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”
“Men are only as great as they are kind.”
“Try to say nothing negative about anybody.
a) for three days
b) for forty-five days
c) for three months
See what happens to your life.”
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.”
“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”