"I gained another friend."

-- Tsugumi Ohba

“One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God's presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus". Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus" is to be faithful.”
“I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be”
“The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.”
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”

Source : "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.
“Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.”
“The idea is that Jodie Foster is with her child and she's going back to New York from Germany with her husband's body. She loses her child on a plane, and you think, 'How can that happen?' There's no record of her having brought a child onto the plane, and the captain is left wondering about whether she's telling the truth. You never really know if she's telling the truth or not.”
“What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.”

Source : "Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.
“By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.”

You may also like:

Akira Toriyama
Artist
Eiichiro Oda
Artist
Hajime Isayama
Manga artist
Hideaki Sorachi
Artist
Hiromu Arakawa
Artist
Katsura Hoshino
Writer
Nobuhiro Watsuki
Artist
Takehiko Inoue
Artist
Tite Kubo
Artist