I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.
Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
There is no country. . . where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.
I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.