Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Work is love made visible.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

-- Dante Alighieri

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

恋愛は一種の創作である。

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

To love is simply to be always beside that person.

-- Shūsaku Endō