Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

-- Virginia Woolf

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.

-- Franz Kafka

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas