The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'