"I believe it’s important to stay young at heart, to have faith in what might seem impossible and to have goals beyond your current abilities or temporary means."

“He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never rea be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.”

Source : "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 81, 1994.

“I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.”

“What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.”

Source : James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

“...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...”

“God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.”

“In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.”

“I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There’s a bit of time travel involved.”

Source : "New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. May 13, 2013.

“As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.”