"I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit."

“I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.”

“Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”

Source : "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.

“I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.”

Source : "Abbas Kiarostami's best shot". Interview with Abbas Kiarostami, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2009.

“If you can affect someone when they’re young, you are in their heart forever,”

Source : Mara Wilson (2016). “Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame”, p.231, Penguin

“Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

“What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn”

Source : Song: Amen Omen, Album: Diamonds on the Inside, 2003

“I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.”

“Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!”

Source : Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.117, University of Illinois Press