“The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.”

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what’s popular and don’t know what you are investing in.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim at what you are willing to earn.

Japan should aim at is a society in which the efforts of people are rewarded.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

My motto is: Always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.