We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

The mastery of writing is ultimately an aesthetics, and it comes down to whether one can create one's own style.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible.

-- Kahlil Gibran

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

-- William Shakespeare

If I can make even one person happy in my lifetime, that is my own happiness.

-- Yasunari Kawabata