Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

There will always be time to imagine a different ending.

One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Teach a departing man the name of one flower. Flowers bloom faithfully every year.

-- Yasunari Kawabata

The Meiji state truly set out in a good direction.

-- Ryotaro Shiba

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

-- Alexander Pushkin

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

-- Walt Whitman

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

-- Born in Baltimore in 1895