"A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words."

“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Source : "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, August 7, 1997.

“My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.”

“Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.”

“The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale”

“Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.”

“to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

“I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.”

Source : "Trump's No Isolationist. Is That a Good Thing?". Interview With Tobin Harshaw, www.bloomberg.com. January 13, 2018.

“Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.”