"Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance."

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.”

Source : "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, www.beliefnet.com. 1951.

“Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.”

“Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.”

“We are all prisoners of our time and place.”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1988). “M. Butterfly”, p.38, Dramatists Play Service Inc

“The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.”

“I put in all the dirty words. It works really well. The thing that we found with 'Drive Angry,' more than anything else is that we wrote the movie that we wanted to see. I've done that before. I've wanted to see 'Jason X'. It did not become the movie that I thought it would be. That happens. It's happened with every movie I've ever done.”

“Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.”

Source : "A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy". Book by John Herschel, 1830.

“Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.”