Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Schools and colleges are just buildings. The real test of education is: how much knowledge the teachders are able to transfer to their students.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

 Spirituality is beyond rituals.

The good man is the friend of all living things.